| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome from the Chair & Vice-Chair |
| 7:45 pm - 9:45 pm | RHODOPSINS: ATOMIC STRUCTURE & ACTIVATION |
| Discussion Leader: John Spudich (UT Houston, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Richard Henderson (MRC Cambridge, UK)
Light-induced conformational changes of protein and retinal in bacteriorhodopsin |
| 8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Hartmut Luecke (UC Irvine, USA)
Atomic-resolution structure of sensory rhodopsin II |
| 8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Gebhard Schertler (MRC Cambridge, UK)
Structure of rhodopsin |
| 9:15 pm - 9:45 pm | Janos Lanyi (UC Irvine, USA)
Crystallographic studies of the intermediates of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MICROBIAL RHODOPSINS |
| Discussion Leader: Silvia Braslavsky (Max-Planck-Inst., Mühlheim, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Oded Béjà (Israel Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Proteorhodopsin in the sea |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | John Spudich (UT Houston, USA)
Diversity of microbial sensory rhodopsins and their signaling mechanisms
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| 10:00 am | Coffee break |
| 10:30 am -11:00 am | Kwang-Hwan Jung (UT Houston, USA)
Anabaena rhodopsin: a eubacterial sensory rhodopsin |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Martin Engelhard (Max-Planck-Inst., Dortmund, Germany)
Protein/protein contacts in the sensory rhodopsin II-transducer complex |
| 11:30 am - Noon | Naoki Kamo (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Interaction of pharaonis phoborhodopsin (sensory rhodopsin II) with its transducer. |
| Noon - 12:30 pm | Minitalks |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:45 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| H. Gobind Khorana (MIT, USA)
"Structure and Function in Rhodopsin" Sponsored by the American Society for Photobiology |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | MAMMALIAN VISUAL PIGMENTS |
| Discussion Leader: Gebhard Schertler (MRC Cambridge UK) |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | K. Peter Hofmann (Humboldt Univ., Berlin)
Mechanisms of activation and deactivation in vertebrate rhodopsin |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Kevin Ridge (CARB, Rockville Maryland USA)
Interactions between "High Affinity" G-protein alpha-subunit carboxyl-terminal peptides and soluble cytoplasmic surface polypeptides of rhodopsin |
| 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Tom Ebrey (U. Washington, Seattle, USA)
Molecular control of the spectra and photochemistry of visual pigments |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Tom Sakmar (Rockefeller Univ., NY USA)
Recreating
ancestral visual pigments
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| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHOTOSENSORY RECEPTORS IN EUCARYOTIC MICROBES |
| Discussion Leader: Francesco Lenci (CNR, Pisa, Italy) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Tetsuo Takahashi (Toho University, Japan)
Archaeal-type Chlamydomonas Opsins: Long sought-after phototaxis receptors ? |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Oleg Sineschekov (Moscow University, Russia)
Chlamydomonas phototaxis receptor-mediated electrical responses |
| 10:00 am | Coffee break |
| 10:30 am -11:00 am | Peter Hegemann (Univ. Regensburg, Germany)
Chlamyopsin-3, a microbial type rhodopsin that might function as a light-gated ion channel |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Masakatsu Watanabe (National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan)
Biological and biochemical functions of the novel blue-light receptor protein in the Euglena paraflagellar body. |
| 11:30 am - Noon | Leonid Brown (UC Irvine, USA)
Photochemical transformations of Neurospora rhodopsin, a eucaryotic homolog of halobacterial photosensors |
| Noon - 12:30 pm | Lisa Franchi (CNR Rome, Italy)
Photosensory and transcriptional coupled systems in Neurospora crassa |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:30 pm - 7:45 pm | PHOTOSENSORS & CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS |
| 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Introduction & Discussion Leader: J. Woodland Hastings (Harvard Univ., USA) |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Russell G. Foster (Imperial College, London UK)
Irradiance detection using non-rod, non-cone ocular photoreceptors |
| 6:15 pm - 6:45 pm | Susan Golden (Texas A&M, USA)
CikA, a bacteriophytochrome that resets the cyanobacterial circadian clock |
| 6:45 pm - 7:15 pm | Carl Johnson (Vanderbilt, USA)
The roles of light in the selection and evolution of circadian clocks |
| 7:15 pm - 7:45 pm | Jennifer Loros (Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA)
Lighting up the Neurospora clock |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHYTOCHROMES |
| Discussion Leader: Pill-Soon Song (Univ. Nebraska & Kumho Life & Env. Science Lab, Korea) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Eberhard Schafer (Univ. Freiburg, Germany)
Light and developmental regulation of nuclear import of phytochromes |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Pill-Soon Song (Univ. Nebraska & Kumho Life & Env. Science Lab, Korea) Phytochrome-interacting proteins and their functions in the light signal transduction |
| 10:00 am | Coffee break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Rick Vierstra (Univ. Wisconsin, USA)
Bacteriophytochromes, a new family of photochromic photoreceptors |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Wolfgang Gärtner (Max-Planck-Inst., Mühlheim, Germany)
Components of light induced signal transduction in cyanobacteria - revised |
| 11:30 am - Noon | Katsuhiko Inomata ( Kanazawa University, Japan)
Structure and function of phytochrome chromophores |
| Noon - 12:30 pm | Peter H. Quail (UC Berkeley, USA)
Phytochromes: Signaling and transcriptional networks |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | CRYPTOCHROMES |
| Discussion Leader: Roberto Bogomolni (UC Santa Cruz, USA) |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Anthony R. Cashmore (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)
The cryptochrome families of blue light receptors |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Carol Thompson (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
Structure and function of mammalian cryptochromes |
| 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Xing-Wang Deng (Yale Univ., USA)
Regulatory interaction between phytochromes/cryptochromes and the COP/DET/FUS regulators |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Carl Bauer (Indiana University, USA)
Characterization
of a blue light photoreceptor controlling photosynthesis gene expression in purple bacteria |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHOTOTROPINS & OTHER RECEPTOR PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Winslow Briggs (Carnegie Inst., Stanford, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Winslow Briggs (Carnegie Inst., Stanford, USA)
Phototropins: A new family of versatile blue light receptors in plants |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | John M. Christie (Univ. Glasgow, UK)
Structure-function analyses of the phototropin blue light receptors |
| 10:00 am | Coffee break |
| 10:30 am -11:00am | Masamitsu Wada (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Recent advances in chloroplast photo-relocation movement in Arabidopsis, fern Adiantum, and moss Physcomitrella |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Roberto Bogomolni (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Photochemical reaction mechanism of phototropins |
| 11:30 am - Noon | Joachim Heberle (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Time-resolved molecular spectroscopy explores the photoreaction of the LOV1 domain of phototropin |
| Noon - 12:30 | Silvia Braslavsky (Max-Planck-Inst., Mühlheim, Germany)
Thermodynamics of the early steps in the photocycles of sensory rhodopsin and halorhodopsin from Natronobacterium pharaonis |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | PHOTOACTIVE YELLOW PROTEINS (PYPs) |
| Discussion Leader: Judith Armitage (Univ. Oxford, UK) |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Klaas Hellingwerf (Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Learning about the molecular mechanism of activation of photosensor proteins: Using Photoactive Yellow Protein as the role model |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Yamamoto Hitoshi (Osaka University, Japan) A Motion Analysis of the recovery process from PYPM to Dark State in the Photocycle of Photoactive Yellow Protein |
| 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Wouter Hoff (Univ. Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Folding and signaling in photoactive yellow protein |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | General Discussion |
